Synonyms
Synonym for confused
What is bewildered?
Antonym for inferior
What is elite?
I held the valuable and fragile figurine _________ to avoid breaking it.
What is gingerly?
This greaser dreams about life in the country.
Who is Ponyboy?
"So I stood there like a bump on a log while [the Socs] surrounded me" (4).
What is a simile?
This planet has the most moons.
What is Saturn?
Synonym for beg
What is implore?
Antonym for confident
What is apprehensive?
The __________ officer rushed into action, risking his own life, to save the woman from a mugger.
What is gallant?
This many Socs jump Ponyboy at the beginning of the novel while he is walking home from the movies alone.
What are 5?
What is hyperbole?
This country is credited with inventing ice cream.
What is China?
Synonym for casual
What is nonchalant?
Antonym for energetically
What is wearily?
After a black cat crossed his path, Jack had a ___________ that something bad would happen.
What is premonition?
Dally "rolled" a Soc, stealing this item from him. He took it back from his girlfriend when they broke up.
What is a ring?
"...that kid Pip [from Great Expectations], he reminded me of us - the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him" (15).
What is allusion?
This famous painter is known for the Sistine Chapel fresco painting. (Hint: This is also the name of a Ninja Turtle).
Who is Michelangelo?
Synonym for belief
What is conviction?
Antonym for happy
What is sullen?
While trying to _________ capture by the police, the criminal stole a car.
What is elude?
Ponyboy returns home after the drive-in at this late hour.
What is 2:00 A.M.?
"[The Socs] walked around slowly, silently, smiling" (4).
What is alliteration?
This animal has the strongest bite of any animal on Earth.
What is the (saltwater) crocodile?
Synonym for distant
Antonym for distinctiveness or unlikeness
What is conformity?
Roland developed superior social skills by following the __________ advice given by Carnegie in his classic text, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
What is sage?
Dally does this action, which prompts another greaser gang leader to go looking to fight him. (This is why Two-Bit comes to the drive-in to find Dally).
What is slash his tires?
"I could smell English Leather shaving lotion and stale tobacco, and I wondered foolishly if I would suffocate before they did anything" (5).
What is imagery?
This is the length of a full marathon.
What is 26.2 miles?
Synonym for shrewd or deceitful
What is cunning?
Antonym for rudimentary or easy
What is unfathomable?
The students were __________ when the superintendent declared a second snow day; they couldn't believe they could enjoy another day of sledding and drinking hot chocolate.
What is incredulous?
Ponyboy describes the Socs as wearing this plaid (checkered) design to their shirts and jackets throughout the first chapters.
What is madras?
"Soda isn't afraid of [Darry] like everyone else and enjoys teasing him. I'd just as soon tease a full-grown grizzly; but for some reason, Darry seems to like being teased by Soda" (9).
What is hyperbole?
This is the only food in the world that never spoils.
What is honey?
Synonym for yearning
What is wistful?
Antonym for doubt
What is conviction?
Nervous to be on stage, she heard her voice start to ___________; however, she quickly steadied her nerves and her voice soon followed.
What is quaver
This is the name of the other Soc whom Pony, Johnny, and Two-Bit meet at the drive-in. (She gave her number to Two-Bit).
Who is Marcia?
"You couldn't shut up that guy; he always had to get his two-bits worth in. Hence his name" (10).
What is an idiom?
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is, ironically, a fear of this.
What are long words?